Device for curling hair for permanent waves



Jan. 31, 11950 D. B. PETERSON DEVICE FOR CURLING HAIR FOR PERMANENT WAVES Filed Aug. 2, 1948 INVEN TOR. flare/by B Pefe/flwn BY A" Z'TORNEY Patented Jan. 31,1950

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DEVICE FOR CURLING HAIR FOR PERMANENT WAVES may set in suitable forms to provide permanent waves and to continue in shape for extended periods and preferably until the hair beneath the curls and waves has grown out from the scalp.

In the preparation of such curls it is important that small locks of hair be coiled in circular shapes over a mandrel or suitable core under tension, and then sustained in such coiled positions a predetermined period of time, sufiicient to enable the operator to apply suitable compounds, for setting the hair and processing the same for waves.

It is also important that the locks of hair be wound upon the core by commencing the coiling at a point adjacent to the scalp and thence spiraling the coils upon the core or post until the tip of the lock is smoothly wrapped over the coils. Attempts to wind or coil the locks of hair by commencing at the tips thereof, result in crimping and injuring the ends of the hair. It is further important that the coils of hair be maintained under relative tension or tightly around upon the center post during any process of supplying compounds for setting the coils for curls and eventual permanent Waves and in the sustaining of such positions upon the posts it is important to provide simple and effective binding means which may be applied with one hand, while the coils may be temporarily retained by the other hand, and for sustaining the lower coil in close proximity to the scalp, to prevent any looseness of the hair or difierences in the waves.

It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a simple and economically constructed device for shaping curls of hair in tightly wound arrangements, together with means for sustaining the curls in such positions for forming permanent waves.

A particular object of the invention is to provide such a device, comprising, a relatively thin flat base plate for disposition over the hair adjacent to the scalp, with a round bodied post or mandrel extended vertically from the center of the plate for receiving coils of hair thereover under suitable tension and an elastic band connected to the ends of the plate to be bound over the coils upon the post for retaining the coils in such tightly wound positions.

With these and other objects to be hereinafter 2 stated, I have illustratively exemplified my in venti'on by the accompanying drawings, of which:

Figure 1 is a, perspective view of the device.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the device with a lock of hair raised over the edge of the plate and partially wound around the post.

Figure 3 is a perspective View of the device and a schematic view of the hair wrapped around the post with the tips of the hair Wrapped over the upper portions of the coils.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the device and a schematic view of the coils of hair pressed down in a mass adjacent to the top of the plate, with an elastic band wrapped over the hair and the ends of the band connected to the respective ends of the plate.

Like characters on the difierent figures represent like parts.

The letter A indicates an elongated and relatively thin fiat plate of suitable dimensions for disposition upon a head of hair and to lie adja-- cent to the scalp. The letter B indicates :a cylindrical post acting as a mandrel and extending vertically from the center of the top of the plate and bein formed integral with the plate. The post is of suitable length or height to receive and support the full lengths of locks of hair there: over, asindicated by numeral .5 including-the tips of the hair indicated by 6.

The plate is preferably thin, as above stated, so that the lower portion of the lock of hair may be disposed or turned over the top of the plate a relatively short distance above the scalp and thereby prevent any slack or looseness of the hair from remaining beneath the lower coil of hair when twisted around the post, to form a series of coils and curls. The upper edges 1 of the plate are rounded to prevent injury to the hair when stretched from the roots 6 thereof to and around the post and the ends of the plate are relatively wider than the body portion adjacent to the post to provide sloping sides 8, for guiding the strands of hair inward or centrally toward the post when the locks are drawn tightly around the post by the operator.

Near the extremities of the ends of the plate, holes or eyelets II are provided vertically and slots or notches l 2 are carried outward from the holes to the extremities but are relatively smaller than the holes and only sufficient in width to permit an end section of an elastic band C to be drawn through the said slots into the holes when the elastic is stretched relatively thin. 0n releasing tension of the elastic it will resume normal thickness and normally remain in desired emua tions in the holes. The end portions of the plates on each side of the slots provide nibs l3 for latching or sustaining the end loops 14 of the band C while the body portion of the band is tightly drawn over and around the locks and coils of hair, for binding the coils in desired positions around the post under suitabl tension for application thereover of proper compounds for fixing curls of hair and fcr'permanent waves therein.

In operation, the bottom of the plate is pressed down firmly upon a head of hair at any desired location; a lock of the hair is then raised from adjacent one Side of the plate and twisted or coiled under suitable stress around the post, commencing with the lower end of the lock around the lower portion of the post and then spirally upward around the post, and the tips of the coils or locks are preferably smoothed around the upper portions of the coils, or directly around the post at the tops of the coils, for relatively smaller coils. The operator then preferably retainssuch coils suitably wound around the post by means of onehand, and by means of the other hand twines the body of the elastic band around and over the coils and connects the ends of the loops of the hand through the, holes and around the nibs at the extremities of the plate. Both hands may be then removed from the positions over the hair "and post, and the coils will be retained in such coiled positions around the post until the band. is removed. To provide. suitable tension in the hand, one end thereof is preferably connected over the nibs at one end of the plate, and the band suitably stretched or tightened over the hair in coils, and the opposite end of the band then connected over the nibs at the opposite end of the plate.

The devices are so economically manufactured that. any desired number thereof can be provided 'for forming a multiplicity of curls over the head simultaneously, and which may be allowed to remain in such positions until the locks of hair have been suitably treated with compounds if desired to provide permanent waves or desirable shapes and styles.

Having. described my invention I claim as new for Letters Patent:

1. A device for shaping hair for curls and per- '4 manent waves, including, a relatively thin elongated plate for disposition over hair upon heads of individuals, a round bodied post extended vertically from and adjacent to the center of the plate and at right angles thereto for supporting coils of hair thereover, the ends of the plate being relatively Wider than the middle portion adjacent to the post to facilitate guiding strands of hair centrally toward the post, said ends being provided with holes therethrough for normally retaining opposite ends of a binding band and being further provided with slots extending from the holes outward to the tips of the plate for facilitating removal of such respective extremities of the band from the plate, together with an elastic band removably associated with the holes for binding over coils of hair on the post for maintaining the same in such coiled position predetermined periods for establishing curls for permanent waves in the hair.

2. A device for curling hair, including, an elongated flattened plate for disposal over a head ad-' jacent to theroots of the hair, a round bodied post extended vertically from the plate and at right angles to the plate for forming and sustaining coils of hair thereon, and an elastic band removably connected with the ends of the plate for binding over coils of hair on the post for maintaining the coils of hair in fixed position upon the post to facilitate establishment of curls for permanent waves in the hair.

DOROTHY B. PETERSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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